Craft ideas for the Christmas tree
A beautifully decorated Christmas tree is essential at Christmas time. Christmas baubles, a chain of lights and the right decoration are definitely part of it. To make your Christmas tree even more individual, just make your own Christmas balls! With a few handicraft ideas, the Christmas season will be even more contemplative.
What you need:
- Newspapers
- paste
- water
- Balloons
- Poster color
Craft ideas: How to make Christmas balls for the Christmas tree
A great way to make your own Christmas tree balls for the Christmas tree is paper mache. For the following craft ideas you don't need anything other than balloons, newspapers, paste, water and paint to paint on.
- First, mix the water and paste in a large bowl or bucket.
- Now tear the newspaper into small snippets and strips. Now simply throw these newspaper snippets into the paste mixture. Let the mass stand for a few minutes before you start working with it. The snippets must absorb the paste well.
- Now take balloons. You inflate these so that they are the size of Christmas balls that you can hang on the Christmas tree. Make sure that your balloons are all roughly the same size. This will make your Christmas tree decorations look more harmonious.
- Next, take a strip of the pasted newspaper and stick it on the balloon. Continue until the balloon is completely surrounded by the paste paper. You do that with all balloons.
- Have you pasted as many balloons as you would like to hang on the tree later? Then let your self-made Christmas tree balls dry at least until the next day before you continue working.
- When your paper mache is completely dry, you can paint the homemade balls. Poster color is best. Whether simply colorful Colours or small motifs - there are no limits to your imagination.
- So that your balls shine on the Christmas tree, you should paint them. Use clear varnish from the craft store or, if necessary, clear nail varnish from your bathroom cabinet.
- When you have primed the balls with paint and possibly varnished them, you can also spray them with snow spray or glitter.
- For a special Christmas feeling, you can also decorate the colorful balls with lace, rhinestones or shiny pearls.
- Now all you have to do is hang your Christmas tree balls on the Christmas tree and have implemented your craft ideas individually!
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